Zhou Bingkun
hou Bingkun, professor of Electrical Engineering. A laser and optoelectronics expert, he was born in Sichuan, China in 1936. He graduated from the Department of Radio Electronics at Tsinghua University in 1956. At present, he is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice-president of the National Natural Science Foundation, Director of the Institute of Electronics at Tsinghua University, Vice Director of the Institute of Semiconductor of the CAS and Vice President of the Chinese Optical Society. He has been engaged in research and teaching on laser and optoelectronics for a long time. His interests include laser physics and devices, semiconductor laserd and their applications, semiconductor lasers, pumped solid state lasers, doped fiber amplifiers and lasers, high speed optical fiber communications and optical switching. He has scientific achievements in the area of "semiconductor laser pumped solid state laser", "single crystal fiber growth and devices", "fiber ring cavity and their application" and eight awards. He is the author or co-author of over 80 papers and one book: Laser Principles, which was awarded a state-level prices for excellence.